A27050:97
A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort…
A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiors, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiours, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Where you must note 1. in general, that he hath no Judicial Administration in the Church: nThey ordinarily say, that he hath no Jurisdiction, but mere Priestly Orders; As if they knew not that Priestly Order is nothing but the Sacred Office; and that that Office is the Power of the Keys, or essentially containeth the Power of Guiding the Flock in Teaching, Worship and Discipline, under Christ the Chief Prophet, Priest and King. Civil Jurisdiction over the Church is the Kings, and Spiritual is part of the Priestly Office or Order (as to the subject people to be governed.)
Where you must note 1. in general, that he hath no Judicial Administration in the Church: nThey ordinarily say, that he hath no Jurisdiction, but meer Priestly Orders; As if they knew not that Priestly Order is nothing but the Sacred Office; and that that Office is the Power of the Keys, or essentially containeth the Power of Guiding the Flock in Teaching, Worship and Discipline, under Christ the Chief Prophet, Priest and King. Civil Jurisdiction over the Church is the Kings, and Spiritual is part of the Priestly Office or Order (as to the subject people to be governed.)
- nCos. Tab. 11.
2. Particularly note, 1. that the Minister hath in England no power to Judge whom to Baptize, and whom not, but must Baptize all that are ⟨p. 10⟩offered, though the Children of Jews, Infidels, Turks, Apostates.